Hi,



While I know most times copying text from a Word doc into Notepad works, the odd time I've had an issue & the code still carried over, so I'm looking for free software that will move all the code before I paste it into Notepad.

Do you guys know of any?

Thank you


Michelle

Notepad will not hold ANY code. I am assuming you mean that you copied into Notepad, then copied back into Word.

The issue is likely what you are doing in Word.

I agree, Notepad will not hold any code. That is, no fields, no macros, no automatic numbering.

What exactly is causing a problem?

I know it's not supposed to, but like I said, once it did hold the code & I was sure I had copied from notepad.

Nothing is happening now, but I have to make sure that everything is stripped b/c this is for a client, not for myself.

No, wasn't copying back to Word, was copying from Word to notepad & that's it.

At the time, even someone else also stated he had that problem once before. It's a glitch that happens once in a blue moon I assume, but it still happens.

Anyway, I found something to strip the code.

Thanks


Michelle

As others have said, Notepad cannot produce documents that contain any code, only plain text format, so whatever you were seeing it wasn't attributable to this. If you save as plain text from Word - that is what you get.

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Sorry but you are not being consistent.

You state "I was sure I had copied from Notepad"

So you DID copy from Notepad.

But then you say "No wasn't cooying back to Word"

Well I will state again that you likely did copy back to Word, because Notepad does not EVER retain code. No glitches. Not ever.

Not only isn't it supposed to, it can't. Notepad files are incapable of containing even contain text formatting, let alone coding of any kind.

Of course, they can contain characters that in other context might equate to code. For example, if you post a Word macro into Notepad, it's just text. If you then copy the same text back to a Word VBA module, it'll function as a macro again. Similarly, if I type something like the following into Notepad and save it, then copy the file to a postscript printer, it will execute a series of postscript commands:

%!PS-Adobe-2.0
/Lsize 1 def
/Left .5 def
/Right .5 def
/Top .5 def
/Bottom .5 def
/BeginX Left 72 mul def
/BeginY 11 Top sub 72 mul def
/WidthBox 8.5 Right sub Left sub 72 mul def
/HeightBox 11 Top sub Bottom sub 72 mul def
Lsize setlinewidth BeginX BeginY moveto WidthBox 0 rlineto 0 HeightBox neg rlineto WidthBox neg 0 rlineto closepath stroke

The same applies to a Notepad file to which I add come content that Internet Explorer can process as HTML code. For all that, the Notepad file is still only a plain text file. It has no 'code' as such - only plain text.

It would help if you could clarify what you mean by "I've had an issue & the code still carried over". What 'code'?

The only other possibility, which I think is altogether more likely, is that you copied & pasted something into Notepad, then pasted the same copy (without re-copying from Notepad) into something else. In that case, formatting, 'code', etc., could indeed carry over, since what is on the clipboard is whatever you originally copied, not the text that was pasted into Notepad.

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